4th of July Gate Trial
Held at the Webb’s property in Glorietta. It is a great place!!! I’d love to have property up there. I don’t suppose that someone would like to buy the place next door to them for me. Darn!! I didn’t think so. Doesn’t hurt to ask, right? I’ve been thinking about it a great deal. The main issue is that I don’t want to sell my current house to make it work. Once it’s paid off, I could totally make it work. Just look at this view!!
Saturday we worked with Chuck and Bruce on how to develop some better skills. I managed to ride a couple of large rocks that gave me issues the first time.
Spending the weekend up at the webb’s was a blast. We had dinner together each night, a potluck on Sunday afternoon, once the gate trial was over.
The loop was 3 miles, riding it 2x was really tiring. Some of the novices dnf’d I don’t blame them. I thought about it toward the end of the second loop. It didn’t help that we kept getting off the trail, had to back track a few times, or had to wait forever for the others in our group to show up.
Not to mention there was a safe version of fireworks on the 4th of July with glow sticks being shot into the air.
The other highlight for the month was the Old 97s concert at the Bridge with Katrin!
Since it’s so stinkin’ hot for most of the day. I did more baking and cooking this month. I know it seems wrong, but it’s the joy of having AC in the house.
I have so many herbs in the garden, I needed to come up with more ways to use them. Besides drying them for use in the winter. I decided to work on getting my focaccia technique down. Along with trying some things I hadn’t tried before or in a long time. Like making gnocchi, or tzatziki sauce, grilling whole chickens on the BBQ grill outside, or even just making burgers.
I had forgotten that ricotta cheese gnocchi was so easy especially if you don’t roll it out and just drop it in the water by the spoonful. It comes out more like dumplings.
They might be a bit odd looking but when you sauté them with some sage butter, OMG!
They are light, delicate, but flavorful bites